OPINION By ERIC FARNSWORTH and EARL ANTHONY WAYNE North America was trending in the midterm elections, although you may have missed it. Think about the top campaign issues in races across the country: economic recovery and job creation, inflation, the price of gasoline, immigration, border security, increasing crime and suffering in communities devastated by fentanyl and other drugs. With the
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OPINION By ALEJANDRO ENVILA FISHER The crisis with Mexico City’s Superior Court of Justice is a surging problem which, in addition to leading to a serious traffic jam, could lead to a reduction in private investment, economic decline, higher unemployment in a city with already too few jobs and ungovernability in the country’s capital. It could also derail Mexico City
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By EARL ANTHONY WAYNE, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
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OPINION By ENRIQUE KRAUZE Mexico’s Senate has in its hands the future of Mexican democracy. Will it allow the nation to suffer the greater damage caused by the electoral legislation that was sent by the Chamber of Deputies? Or will it, in this crucial hour, assume its historic duty to represent the interests and will of the Mexican people? Maybe
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A Very Long Tail
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PULSE NEWS MEXICO The Mexican Supreme Court (SCJN) ruled Tuesday, Nov. 29, that President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) decree ordering the nation’s military to participate in public security work through 2024 is constitutional. During its Tuesday session, the SCJN, which is led by AMLO cohort and rubber-stamper Arturo Zaldívar, ruled that the recently approved National Guard Law allows the
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OPINION By JOHN BURZAWA, SOPHIE EGAR and EARL ANTHONY WAYNE Part of an ongoing series from the Wilson Center* The United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) provides continent-wide rules, norms and problem-solving processes that can help the three-member countries to continue the trade and coproduction system established under its predecessor, the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). But if the USMCA is to
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OPINION By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Despite orders from the powers that be (make that, power that be) for all government employees to put on their marching shoes and show their “solidarity” for the leftist government of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) in his egocentric march of self-adornment on Sunday, Nov. 27, and despite reports from Tepito merchants and others
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By ANTONIO GARZA, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
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OPINION By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS In a blatant act of me-tooism, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) announced Wednesday, Nov. 16, that — after having first denied the massive 500,000-plus turnout of the nationwide March for Democracy on Sunday, Nov. 13, in defense of the country’s National Electoral Institute (INE), which he has been champing at the bits to abolish
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